This Tolkien-annotated copy belonged to Baynes, who died in 2008, and it was only recently unearthed in October, when Blackwell’s Rare Books put it on display.

Hidden in an old copy of The Lord of the Rings, a U.K. rare book store has found a map of Middle-earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The map, found in a book given to Blackwell's Rare Books ...

A map of Middle-Earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien has been discovered in a copy of “The Lord of the Rings” owned by illustrator Pauline Baynes. The document offers glimpses into many of ...

I n news that requires a bigger celebration than Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday, a map of Middle Earth annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself was recently discovered. The rare document was found ...

J.R.R. Tolkien was nothing if not exact. The famous author behind The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings built his fantasy world by paying close attention to its language, culture, and geography ...

The map with the notes on it was created by in the early 1950s by Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's son, for the first edition of "The Lord of the Rings" (the book more familiar to some as ...

But as drafts, they must have helped Tolkien, too. "The 'First Map' of Middle-earth" was Tolkien’s master reference map; over the years, he glued new sheets on top of old ones as his story grew ...

The books go ever on and on. Forty years after his death at 81, works by J.R.R. Tolkien continue to appear. The latest, “The Fall of Arthur,” lists nine works published during his lifetime ...

The origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth, on display in NYC 01:23 "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit," wrote J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973). And so, the story about the hobbit Bilbo Baggins ...

“The Nature of Middle-earth," a previously unseen collection of writings about Middle-earth by J.R.R. Tolkien, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media in the United States ...

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote more than just The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but his Middle-earth books weren't released in chronological order.